Index

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION 7

I. BETWEEN COLONIAL AND ETHICAL NOISE 35 
The French Speech Archives, rwais sound, and aural mediation

II. LISTEN, THAT'S US! 87 
Responses from Tafraout to the Paul Bowles Moroccan Music Collection (1959)

III. SALAM GODZILLA 125 
The 1960 Agadir earthquake, technocratic listening, and the plural unsound field

IV. A WASTED BREATH INSIDE A BALLOON 155 
Popular Sufi healing, postcolonial bodies, and sonic pluralism

V. STONESOUND 195
Living with stones, lithic affect, and aural co-domestication

VI. ATLANTIC RAGAGAR 235 
Seaweed, pollution, and the voice of the sea

Acknowledgments 276 
Video and Sound Works 278
Bibliography 286
Image Index 294